Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano Sets May Date for Live Netflix MMA Event

Netflix has announced that its archetypal unrecorded MMA lawsuit volition spot Ronda Rousey participate the ringing against Gina Carano.

The unrecorded lawsuit was announced contiguous and is scheduled to watercourse from the Intuit Dome successful Los Angeles May 16, 2026. A face-to-face property league promoting the lawsuit is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine the aforesaid determination March 5, with tickets acceptable to spell connected merchantability that time astatine 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET.

— Netflix (@netflix) February 17, 2026

Netflix’s livestreamed featherweight lawsuit comes arsenic a effect of its collaboration with Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and volition spot the 2 arguable combat sports stars spell head-to-head nether the Unified Rules of the MMA done 5 5-minute rounds. It’s an unexpected announcement for much reasons than one, particularly arsenic it’s been astir 17 years since Carano’s past MMA combat and a small little than a decennary since Rousey’s.

“Ronda came to maine and said determination is lone 1 idiosyncratic she would marque a comeback for and it has been her imagination to marque this combat hap betwixt us,” Carano said successful a statement. “She thanked maine for opening up doors for her successful her vocation and was respectful successful asking for this combat to happen. This is an honor. I judge I volition locomotion retired of this combat with the triumph and I expect it volition not travel easy, which I welcome. This is arsenic overmuch for Ronda and maine arsenic it is for the fans and mixed martial arts community. What a clip to beryllium alive.”

Both competitors archetypal caught the attraction of the nationalist oculus owed to their abilities arsenic nonrecreational fighters. They’ve besides each spent the 2010s and 2020s arsenic acquainted names extracurricular of the ringing – adjacent if it’s not ever been for affirmative reasons.

— Netflix Sports (@netflixsports) February 17, 2026

Rousey has orbited the satellite of sports careless of her nonstop engagement successful competition, lending her dependable to the WWE for some unrecorded and video game-related projects successful caller years. She’s besides spent clip arsenic the dependable of Sonya Blade successful caller Mortal Kombat entries and adjacent made a cameo quality successful Furious 7. This each comes aft a 2013 contention that saw her station and past delete a connection perpetuating claims that families of Sandy Hook victims were paid actors. Outside of 1 tweet posted soon after, Rousey mostly avoided the taxable until posting a lengthy apology successful 2024, 11 years later.

Carano, meanwhile, has done her champion to instrumentality to the satellite of movies and TV. Her appearances successful live-action movie began aft her departure from nonrecreational sports successful 2009, with notable projects similar Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Heist (2015), and Deadpool (2016) each nether her belt.

Carano would past unafraid her biggest relation yet erstwhile she played the portion of Cara Dune for 2 seasons of Disney’s The Mandalorian. Her clip successful Star Wars was short-lived, though, arsenic Lucasfilm was speedy to occurrence her aft a now-deleted post, wherever she compared the persecution of Jewish radical successful Nazi Germany to being a Republican successful 2021, which saw fans motorboat a #FireGinaCarano campaign. She past went connected to enactment with blimpish media institution The Daily Wire connected its 2022 task Terror connected the Prairie earlier launching a favoritism and wrongful termination suit against Disney with backing from Elon Musk successful 2024. The quality was settled successful August 2025.

For 1 crushed oregon another, some names are definite to pull a batch of attraction for Netflix erstwhile Rousey vs. Carano takes spot this May. The event, which volition beryllium the streaming giant’s archetypal unrecorded MMA broadcast, follows a 2024 amusement that enactment contented creator Jake Paul against boxing fable Mike Tyson and resulted successful the most-streamed sporting lawsuit of all-time.

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